Release of TheoDORE 3.0

Version 3.0 of the TheoDORE wavefunction analysis package is available. Download the current version below.

New features of TheoDORE 3.0

  • New user interface and documentation
  • Improvement for VIST (plot_vist)
  • Improvements for natural orbital analysis (analyze_nos) including unrestricted orbitals
  • LOC for ionic states (analyze_tden)
  • Jmol densities (jmol_mos)
  • State-to-state TDM
  • Updated ADF interface
  • ONETEP interface
  • Excitation number, modified from [DOI: (10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00963)]

Note: TheoDORE 3 has a modified user interface. To use TheoDORE call

theodore theoinp

theodore analyze_tden

theodore analyze_nos

etc.

TheoDORE – Download

Download the newest release of the TheoDORE wavefunction analysis program – TheoDORE 3.2 (22 July 2024)

Size: 12 MB
Version: 3.2

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Visualisation of Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity

Dylan has finished his MChem project entitled “Visualisation of Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity via the Computation of the Chemical Shielding on Multi-Dimensional Grids.” You can find his report here. The purpose of his project was to develop a convenient method for computing shielding tensors on a grid around a molecule. The developed code is available via github.

Below, an analysis of biphenylene is shown in the singlet (a) and triplet (b) state. For the singlet this representation highlights the aromaticity (red) of the benzene rings whereas the central 4-membered ring is found to be antiaromatic (blue). In the triplet (b), the whole molecule is found to be aromatic (red) according to Baird’s rule.

An analysis of norcorrole using either its doubly protonated form (a) or a nickel complex (b) highlights the antiaromaticity at the centre of this molecule whereas an aromatic pathway is found at the perimeter (see also [P. B. Karadakov, Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 8676]).

For more examples of how this type of analysis is used in the literature, see e.g., [Angew. Chemie – Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 19275] and [ChemPhysChem 2021, 22, 741].

Release of TheoDORE 2.4

Version 2.4 of the TheoDORE wavefunction analysis package is available. Download the current version below.

New features of TheoDORE 2.4:

TheoDORE – Download

Download the newest release of the TheoDORE wavefunction analysis program – TheoDORE 3.2 (22 July 2024)

Size: 12 MB
Version: 3.2

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3D visualisation of chemical shielding tensors

Aromaticity is a ubiquitous yet elusive concept in chemistry and chemists have spent a great deal of effort on developing methods to quantify and visualise aromaticity. One particularly popular method is the nucleus independent shift (NICS), which can be seen as a virtual NMR experiment carried out within a conjugated ring to evaluate the enhanced chemical shielding induced by aromatic ring-currents. Strikingly NICS also allows to quantify antiaromaticity, as this induces a net deshielding effect within the ring. NICS provides a powerful quantitative aromaticity criterion but the main challenge for its graphical representation is that the chemical shielding is a 3×3 tensor, which is difficult to visualise with the existing methods.

Therefore, we have developed a new method for the visualisation of chemical shielding tensors (VIST), which provides a local representation of the shielding tensor along with the molecular structure. The method, thus, allows to probe local aromaticity along with the underlying anisotropy of the shielding. The method is described in the preprint “3D Visualisation of chemical shielding tensors to elucidate aromaticity and antiaromaticity” available on ChemRxiv.

Within the preprent we exemplify the main concepts in the benzene and phenanthrene molecules and continue by studying

The underlying code is scheduled to be released within the next version of the TheoDORE wavefunction analysis package.

Release of TheoDORE 2.3.

Version 2.3 of the TheoDORE wavefunction analysis package is available. Download the current version below.

New features of TheoDORE 2.3:

  • Compute (unpaired) densities using orbkit
  • Fix for theo_test.bash
  • Fix for ORCA osc. strengths
  • Old RASSI interface removed (was not working properly)
TheoDORE – Download

Download the newest release of the TheoDORE wavefunction analysis program – TheoDORE 3.2 (22 July 2024)

Size: 12 MB
Version: 3.2

Full release notes:

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